chadtower Posted March 31, 2004 Share Posted March 31, 2004 Unfuckingbelievable, guys. I will be one of those in line to preorder when it's available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris++ Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 Any chance in hell of a port to the 8-bit shortly thereafter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaineMaxwell Posted April 15, 2004 Share Posted April 15, 2004 Very impressive graphics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted April 16, 2004 Author Share Posted April 16, 2004 People keep asking me to port Adv II to the Atari 8bit computers, because few own 5200's or like the system that much. Well, it is my desire to port Adventure II to the 8bits but there is no guarantee. I still think it will come to be sometime during 2004. The thing is, to put a 32K 5200 cart on the 8bits, you gotta bank switch 2 16K Eproms. But Adventure II is written as a 32K cart, with 32K of addressing. It is not simply a matter of putting half on one 16K and the 2nd half on another 16K eprom. From what I've heard so far, the game's entire ROM memory must be switched around. I've never done this before, so I can't comment on timelines, I can only say that I believe it can be done with hopefully minimal code changes and that we'll try. But the 5200 version will be out first and probably several months before any possible 8bit version. Maybe we'll learn a thing or two from the Koffi Konversion. Thanks again for the comments and the various emails. Some folks even took the time to send detailed screenshots of some glitches & oddities to help me out in debugging -- thanks again! I must inform you all that the version you are playing is already old though .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vespertillio Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 Cafeman, 2 words: "You Rock!!!" That is all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classics Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 Just unload your program into RAM and turn off the cartridge. It wont run on 16k machines but nobody uses those anyway since almost no games work on them. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted April 16, 2004 Author Share Posted April 16, 2004 Just unload your program into RAM and turn off the cartridge. It wont run on 16k machines but nobody uses those anyway since almost no games work on them.Steve As obvious as that solution is, I hadn't thought of it. After talking offline w/some other folks, it seems it might not be as time consuming as I thought.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legeek Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 Great work Cafeman and Raccoon Lad! Adventure II (along with Homestar Runner RPG) will be the must get homebrews of the year! Cheers, Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris++ Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 Cool -- thanks for filling me in on the technical side of it, Ron (it's still all like wizardry to me). I don't mean to whine. Suffice to say that if you do port it to the 8-bit eventually, money will not be an object as far as this boy's concerned. Looks awesome so far, that's for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stingray Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 I don't own a 5200, but it looks like I'm gonna have to get one. I can't wait to play this! -S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeybastard Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 Believe me EVERYONE needs a 5200 even without AII It's going to make it just that much sweeter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DracIsBack Posted April 16, 2004 Share Posted April 16, 2004 Believe me EVERYONE needs a 5200 even without AII It's going to make it just that much sweeter. The issue is often finding a fully working one at a price that won't break the budget. I've only ever found one in the wild in Canada and it died on me not all that long after I bought it. Getting another one is a pain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaztee Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 Hi Guys, Why am I having trouble downloading the game from the web site. I keep getting an error message saying I am not authorised to download!! Please help as I would love to try this out. It looks so good from the screenshots I just gotta play it! Cheers Gaztee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted April 18, 2004 Author Share Posted April 18, 2004 do you have a firewall? turn it off & try it, if so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaztee Posted April 18, 2004 Share Posted April 18, 2004 Tried turning off the firewall & Still no joy Guess I will have to wait until the cart is released to play it! Gaztee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angusjake Posted April 24, 2004 Share Posted April 24, 2004 few own 5200's or like the system that much no!! there are lots of fans - the game looks great when can we buy it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted April 24, 2004 Share Posted April 24, 2004 I am here to tease. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamerz Posted April 24, 2004 Share Posted April 24, 2004 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrandviewCoin Posted April 24, 2004 Share Posted April 24, 2004 Just checked it out on ATARI800 Win, and it's awesome! Can't wait to get ahold of this one! Daniel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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